A STEM themed Christmas party! We will have various projects for you to tinker with, including robotics, coding games, video games, and more. Come in a STEM themed costume! We will have a contest for the best dressed 4-Her! Your favorite molecule, robot, programming langage mascot, or other STEM related character. If you come […]

Update: Many of our responders do not have Facebook, so we have made this survey available on Survey Monkey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/coding_classes_in_franklin_county We are creating new coding classes for the youth of Franklin County! Help us learn what you would like to have. Please fill out this survey for every youth that is interested in coding classes. […]

Franklin County 4-H STEM Project Club participated in the Incredible Wearables event for 4-H National Youth Science Day along with other clubs throughout the country. We had a great time designing, building, and learning about technology and the human body. Visit the STEM Project Club’s Facebook page for pictures and videos of the event. https://www.facebook.com/stemprojectclub/ […]

4-H Youth Science Day is coming up! We got in the Incredible Wearables kits and are preparing for the challenge! Plan to join us and help create a wearable fitness tracker! http://4-h.org/parents/national-youth-science-day/ https://www.uaex.edu/counties/franklin/ This project is suitable for 4th to 12th graders, but youth must be a member of Franklin County 4-H to participate. Please […]

A new 4-H project club has started in Franklin County! The STEM Project Club is focused on engaging students with STEM projects. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Students interested in any of these areas can have a great time learning these disciplines while building cool projects. Our first project is building an ROV […]

We have been having a great time at Charleston Public Library! The kids involved in the Ozobot robotics program are learning a lot. Next month on April 3rd the students will be challenged in a programming contest. The challenge is to program the Ozobot to move in specific patterns that can be recognized by the […]

The year is coming to a close and we are looking forward to an exciting 2017! GeekDaddy Dean and Charleston Public Library will continue working together to bring technology education to Franklin County. Ozobot classes at Charleston Public Library will continue to be held on the first Monday of the month. These classes are […]

A Zero Day exploit is a security defect in software that has just been discovered. The developers have not yet had the chance to patch, so the software is vulnerable. If you are currently using FireFox, switch to a different browser until the exploit is fixed. Read the article for more information. Emergency Bulletin: Firefox […]

We had a great time at the Charleston Library learning how Ozobot makes decisions. The kids learned about random selection and probabilities all while having fun with robots! We had a packed class and most of the students have attended my Ozobot classes before. They are learning and growing and gaining a better understanding of […]